Japanese Citizen Arrested on DL flight
Jan 11, 2012, 9:41 am
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Japanese Citizen Arrested on DL flight
http://www.khon2.com/news/local/stor...4dtRkGtFg.cspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
Jan 11, 2012, 9:48 am
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http://www.khon2.com/news/local/stor...4dtRkGtFg.cspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
Its weird how alcohol affects people differently...some get angry and violent, others get chatty and happy, others loud and stupid, and others just fall asleep..
Jan 11, 2012, 11:35 am
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Jan 11, 2012, 11:51 am
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That's totally inappropriate behavior. The correct thing to do is to wait until you get home, write DL saying how this is a new low and threaten to never fly with them again, ask for 30,000 miles and 10 upgrade certificates good for any fare.
After that, coming here and posting about it!
THAT's proper etiquette.
After that, coming here and posting about it!
THAT's proper etiquette.
Jan 11, 2012, 12:18 pm
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http://www.khon2.com/news/local/stor...4dtRkGtFg.cspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFPDYb_xOg
"A 65-year-old Japanese national was taken into federal custody after allegedly punching and slapping a flight attendant on board Delta flight 608 to Honolulu from Tokyo."
Cultural differences .....!!!
Jan 11, 2012, 12:52 pm
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I've done that flight before. It's a heavy leisure route. My experiences in Japan have are:
1) Japanese salarymen know how to get intoxicated (most work 1/2 days on Saturday so they have to fit the party in).
2) Domestic abuse is a serious problem and is rarely reported. Things the US was doing about the issue in the 70s just started in Japan in the 2000s.
The guy is lucky this happened in on the way to the US. In Japan the prosecutors office can hold you for months before ever seeing a judge.
1) Japanese salarymen know how to get intoxicated (most work 1/2 days on Saturday so they have to fit the party in).
2) Domestic abuse is a serious problem and is rarely reported. Things the US was doing about the issue in the 70s just started in Japan in the 2000s.
The guy is lucky this happened in on the way to the US. In Japan the prosecutors office can hold you for months before ever seeing a judge.
Jan 11, 2012, 1:43 pm
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Yes, he is very inappropriate behavior and he could deserve banned flying on DL for the life. He did wrong thing to do. He can't slap on FA. That's wrong! He can't be bothered on FA and he have respect to FA and let's FA is doing their job.
Jan 11, 2012, 2:35 pm
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I've been on two DL flights where Japanese nationals got arrested. One was NRT DTW... guys slapped his girlfriend and the Feds picked him up in DTW. The other was NRT SPN, where an elderly Japanese man was cuffed and pulled off the flight in SPN (reason unknown). Never seen it with any other nationalities. I guess since Japanese are normally unruly and disorderly, they are much more likely to get arrested.
Jan 11, 2012, 3:46 pm
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I've been on two DL flights where Japanese nationals got arrested. One was NRT DTW... guys slapped his girlfriend and the Feds picked him up in DTW. The other was NRT SPN, where an elderly Japanese man was cuffed and pulled off the flight in SPN (reason unknown). Never seen it with any other nationalities. I guess since Japanese are normally unruly and disorderly, they are much more likely to get arrested.
Jan 11, 2012, 3:52 pm
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I wonder if the slap on the FAs shoulder could have been an attempt to get her attention, more of a tap on the shoulder if she ignored the call light.
Jan 11, 2012, 6:42 pm
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Jan 11, 2012, 6:44 pm
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On a serious note, why does everybody care about the pax being Japanese? I kind of think all societies have their fare share of these jerks.